Re: [gentoo-dev] preference concerns over "gentoo-ization" ofpackages

[Paul de Vrieze]

>
> In one way you try to promote tinkering, only the distro has to make it
> easy for the tinkerers. On the other hand you want Gentoo to stay
> vanilla as well. I see this as a conflict. Tinkerers are not the ones
> who need it to be available the easy way, the ones who do not want to
> tinker are not interested in having it available in an easy way.

Tinkering now is inconvenient. If you know a different way to do it which
is not by a useflag I think that is acceptable too. I don't think it needs
to be easy to be non-default, but now it is in my opinion really hard.

>
> For me it's not about Gentoo being vanilla all the way, but for Gentoo
> to be as vanilla as possible with only the really needed extras added.

I think that should be the default too. I want to argue that in cases we
might have a useflag to allow people to disable the as vanilla as possible
and go with fully vanilla with only bugfixes. As I don't think this kind
of useflag should be the default in any case I think one useflag should be
enough.

> Not the not-so-needed extras added behind some USE flag and some other
> cool gadgets behind another USE flag.

I'm not in favor of all kinds of cool gadgets and many not-so-needed
extras. I don't mean to say I want dropshadows in kde or gnome.

Paul

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